(August 17, 2017 at 3:00 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I am not afraid of Muslims in general. Not the ones in the US. But I am afraid of ISIS, and I hate the Islamic culture/sharia law in the middle eastern countries. I fear for my husband when he has to go out to Syria and fight the bastards.
I hate words like, "race", "ethnic" and "culture" use by any religion, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, it does not matter to me. They are religions, not our genes. They are positions people buy into.
I agree that ignorance can lead to more closed and conservative societies. In that context sure, I agree sharia is a bad thing, but that is not a culture, it is an interpretation of a religious supplement along with the Koran.
HUMAN's abilities to be cruel or compassionate are not in holy writings, but holy writings can lead people to very bad conclusions to justify harm to others. Islam does not own a patent on human cruelty.
Instead of using the word "culture" I'd say, "I hate their particular interpretation."
I can find very horrible positions in Christianity to that lead to positions of hate that people use to justify harm to others as well.
Holy writings of all the worlds religions are not where our behaviors come from, good or bad. They may be where humans think they come from, but that is not where they come from.
Your ability to be compassionate or cruel is in you, the individual, not a religious label, not a holy writing.
"Culture" is simply another word humans use to avoid facing the fact that we are not as different as we'd like to think we are and religion uses that word to avoid scrutiny of it's flaws.
All 7 billion of us are still the same species, with the same desires for food, shelter, companionship and a means to survive. I'd only agree that certain positions, or interpretations can and do lead to horrible things..
